Performative Discourse

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Discourse is a specific series of representation and practices through which meanings are produced, identities constituted, social relations established, and political and ethical outcome made more or less possible. This is how people understand and communicate everything and nothing exists outside of discourse. Individuals who use this concept say that everything is language, and that there is no reality so because of their linguistic idealism, they are unable to take political positions and defend an ethical stance. When trying to understand discourse as involving ideals and the materials, the linguistic and the non-linguistic, the discourses become performative. Performative means that discourses constitute the objection of which they

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